# Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: The 2016 Critical Use Exemption From the Phaseout of Methyl Bromide
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2015-10-15 · Effective 2016-01-01 · 80 FR 61985
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-26301
- **Category:** air-emissions
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 61985
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 82
- **Publication date:** 2015-10-15
- **Effective date:** 2016-01-01
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0369
## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorizing uses that qualify for the critical use exemption and the amount of methyl bromide that may be produced or imported for those uses for the 2016 control period. EPA is issuing this action under the authority of the Clean Air Act to reflect consensus decisions of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer at the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Parties in November 2014.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/15/2015-26301/protection-of-stratospheric-ozone-the-2016-critical-use-exemption-from-the-phaseout-of-methyl)
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